PULLMAN, Wash. – Ukrainian songs about fidelity – in relationships and also to one’s country – will strike a timely note in “Love: A Matter of Trust,” a Faculty Artist Series performance at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in Bryan Hall at Washington State University.
Proceeds from the series benefit the School of Music scholarship fund.
Tickets will be for sale in the lobby 30 minutes before the concert. They are free to WSU students with ID. The cost is $10 general admission and $5 for non-WSU students and those age 60+.
Faculty members Julie Anne Wieck, soprano, and Gerald Berthiaume, piano, will open their concert with a vocal chamber work by Handel that starts with the text “No, I do not trust you,” in Italian. The music will sound familiar as it includes melodies later used by Handel in his famous “Messiah” oratorio.
Two other WSU School of Music faculty members will perform in this chamber ensemble: Lori Wiest, mezzo-soprano, and Ruth Boden, cello.
Works by the father of Ukrainian art song, Mykola Lysenko, and another prominent Ukrainian composer, Grigori Alchevsky, will be followed by cabaret-like art songs by German-born composer Kurt Weill, an exile in France after he fled the Hitler regime.
The Scottish Lillygay song cycle by contemporary British composer Peter Warlock is based on old English and Scottish folk poems. The recital will close with an aria about the fickleness of love by American composer Kirke Mechem.
Find more information about the WSU Faculty Artist Series at http://libarts.wsu.edu/music/artistseries.htm.
Contacts:
Julie Wieck, WSU School of Music, jwieck@wsu.edu, 509-335-4331
Sandra Albers, WSU School of Music, sandra_albers@wsu.edu, 509-335-4148